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TimW
 TimW
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Enclosure for MM

I'd been waiting on the MM upgrade before building an enclosure for my printer. Finally have had time to put it together. It's a cube of acrylic sheets, fixed and supported using printed PLA corners and supports. The top and front are removable and held in place using magnets. In use, I usually just remove the front piece, but removing the top is useful if I have problems. There's extra supports at the front to keep the structure solid. To make it easy to feed filament into the extruders, I ran bowden tubes through a printed "pass-through" piece on the back of the printer (which is also used to feed in the power). I've included a few photos (and I'll write up the build here: https://hackaday.io/project/26133-original-prusa-i3-mk2-mm-enclosure )

Posted : 27/07/2017 3:34 am
TimW
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Re: Enclosure for MM

And I realize people with enclosure printing know this, but I was surprised at the difference when printing ASA. This is a little test Lego brick I printed in Rigid Ink ASA, the left brick was printed with the enclosure, the right brick without (everything else the same).

Posted : 27/07/2017 7:24 am
mavu
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Re: Enclosure for MM

nice looking box.

did you test if the bowden tubes interfere with the "lid" when you print tall objects?

Posted : 27/07/2017 8:20 am
TimW
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Well the tubes certainly do get pressed up against the lid, but not in a way which appears to restrict the filament movement (thankfully! I hadn't checked because I tend not to print very tall stuff).

Posted : 27/07/2017 10:59 pm
Gear Mesh
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Re: Enclosure for MM

What settings are you using for the Rigid.Ink ASA?
Just curious as I am experiencing my Rigid.Ink ASA models curling off the bed.

Posted : 12/09/2017 12:43 am
TimW
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100C for the bed, 250 for the hotend. No cooling. I've not tried anything big, but the small stuff stayed stuck with the enclosure.

Posted : 12/09/2017 2:53 am
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